4 June 2019
Burden of Truth S3
Kristen Kreuk executive produces and stars as Joanna Hanley, a hot-shot lawyer who defends a pharmaceutical company but soon finds herself switching sides to fight for a group of sick girls.
She returned in the second season a year on, working on a new case for a different law firm. But her client is about to turn her life upside down.
Season 3 picks up a year later. Joanna Chang and Billy Crawford (Peter Mooney, who was nominated for a 2020 Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor for the role) are working together in their new boutique law firm, Crawford Chang, when an old friend abruptly re-enters Joanna’s life in desperate need of help. After this case, nothing will be the same again.
Kristen Kreuk was nominated for a 2019 Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress for the role. Burden of Truth was also nominated for its cinematography at the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards and has a 89% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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